Trans VSI Connection NSCAD-NETCO. Sept 15 - Oct 15, 1969

Halifax, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1970, 27,7x21,5 cm, paperback, pp. [214], artist book documenting with black and white reproductions the correspondence between the artist, who also worked under the name The N.O.Thing CO. until the end of the 1960s. and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. The artist’s foreword states: “The publication was created using the copying process. The exhibition did not actually take place, but consists of the correspondence documented in the book and is also the exhibition”. An early attempts to bridge technology [telegrams, telex, telecopier], distance [Vancouver to Nova Scotia] and time [the four hour time zone change between the two cities], sending instructions for artworks and students at NSCAD attempting to execute and respond with results. Project also involved David Askevold, Mary Lou Bowstead, Richards Jarden, Jo Knapp, Sue Krassman, and others. Edition size unknown unsigned and unnumbered. [Bibliography: Celant 1972, pp. 74].